Variations

CONCEPT

“Gaston Bachelard points out that we categorize many of our emotions by their relative weight; they make us feel heavier or lighter. Perhaps because uprightness is the human quality, we imagine human emotions arranged on a vertical scale from ground to sky. So sadness is weighed down and earthbound joy is aerial, and the sensation of freedom defies the bonds of gravity.” Michael Pollan

Variations is a formal project inspired by this quote of Gaston Bachelar. I just wanted to start to explore how to create comptemporary reliefs (using the same drawing), that blurred the lines between design, sculpture and graphic art, with this idea of lightness to express different emotions and to continue working on the sequence series. The firsts pieces were made using bench wood and then with painted aluminium. There are study models and mockups carefully made.